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Article: Leader of the pack; Who was the first man to reach the North Pole? In 1909 an American admiral claimed he did it in only 37 days, sparking off a century of controversy. To test his claim, Brit TOM AVERY and his team recreated his perilous journey, entrusting their lives to their superhero dogs.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- June 18, 2005
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Byline: JULIAN CHAMPKIN
What would make four young men, a dog trainer in her 50s, and a team of rare Inuit hunter dogs risk their lives on the melting polar icecap to clear up a century-old mystery of exploration? Just back from the wastes of the frozen north, Tom Avery, from Sussex, and his team are not quite sure themselves. They endured exhaustion, biting, relentless cold and total immersion in icy water: all to prove whether a long-dead American admiral was the first man to reach the North Pole in 1909.
And their team of dogs suffered alongside them. The men bedded down for the night on bare snow, in tents without groundsheets; the dogs slept outside ...